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Rollout

Posted By: Rich Munitz
Date: Thursday, 5 February 2009, at 4:39 a.m.

In Response To: Rollout (Neil Robins)

Looks like I forgot to vote here. 11/6 is my play.

Actually I looked at this and probably was going with 11/7, but I was not at all clear that it was right. Yes, a better chance of escaping by advancing the back man. But the question in my mind was did we have to escape to win? Is it a likely scenario that the checker can sit there on the 3 point and never have to move at all? Lets say we move 11/6. White enters. With all of those builders we point on white. White dances. Now what? Cube? Take? Pass? This is not an unlikely sequence and I think blue frequently wins this way without ever having to escape.

Obviously it is close and the deciding factor was the gammons. As usual this is a factor I frequently overlook when I'm thinking "how am I going to win this game", and this position was no different.

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